ZIP_FILE_STRERROR(3)

💖 ZIP_FILE_STRERROR(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to section 3 of the manual — Library Functions — and today's main character is literally the function that tells you what went wrong in words you can actually read. no cap. 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

zip_file_strerror, zip_strerror — get string representation for a zip error

like… the vibes-to-words translator for your zip problems 💅

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✨ LIBRARY ✨

libzip (-lzip)

yep that's the one, link it and you're golden 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <zip.h>

const char *
zip_file_strerror(zip_file_t *file);

const char *
zip_strerror(zip_t *archive);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea, bestie. zip_strerror() hands you back a string that describes the last error for the zip archive archive. and zip_file_strerror()? it does the exact same thing but for a zip file file — and by "a zip file" we mean one single file inside an archive, not the whole thing. ikyk. 🧚

now the important part, and not me being dramatic because this is fr fr:

the returned string must not be modified or freed, and it becomes invalid the moment archive or file (whichever one you're asking about) gets closed — or on the next call to zip_strerror() or zip_file_strerror(), respectively, for the same archive. 😭

so like, screenshot it (copy it) if you need to keep it around. that pointer is a guest, not a resident. 🫶

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⭐ RETURN VALUES ⭐

zip_file_strerror() and zip_strerror() return a pointer to the error string. that's it, that's the whole return. simple. iconic. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• libzip(3)
• zip_error_strerror(3)

go read those too, they're part of the same little friend group 💜

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🦋 HISTORY 🦋

zip_file_strerror() and zip_strerror() were added in libzip 0.6. glow-up complete ✨

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at>

thank you kings, the error messages ate 🍓

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from the Debian build, dated December 18, 2017, and it lives in section 3 of the manual — ZIP_FILE_STRERROR(3), no cap. mwah 💋✨